This Black Star reunion from the night before Thanksgiving features DP's Amber and Haley along with the Roots on "History" from Mos's The Ecstatic LP. A(nother) hat tip to the Fallon show for doing awesome things on the somewhat regular. More »

Months after giving Questlove a twitter conniption at Late Night, Dirty Projectors had "Stillness Is The Move"'s beats thoroughly beefed up when Ahmir, Captain Kirk, and bassist Owen Biddle sat in with the band at Bowery on Sunday night. That song's got legs. More »

Welcome to your music meme of the week. Turns out there are bands in Williamsburg, and New York is all over it. It's far from the first time our neighborhood's been dressed up and packaged for a major print publication, but maybe it's the first time the scene's been distilled into a playlist everybody… More »

Dirty Projectors showcased an acoustic "No Intention" at Housing Works this past Spring. Take a break from familiarizing with new DP material, for another stripped-down take on the Bitte Orca tune: They did it this time for Sirius' new XMU Sessions, a series that has upcoming showings from Dinosaur Jr., the Raveonettes, and… More »

While you were out drinking as vampire Sarah Palins and slutty John McCains (research for this post conducted in 2008), musicians were celebrating Halloween in myriad ways their own: Phish covered Exile In Main Street in Indio; Titus Andronicus did an all-Weezer set while fending off security at the Vice 15 party in Williamsburg… More »

Dirty Projectors have been playing "Ascending Melody" live since April '08, though the first time we heard the track at Music Hall Of Williamsburg it was called "That's My Move" (or at least that's how they introduced it). You'll find this loose, chatty (and pretty damn epic) studio version on the "Temecula Sunrise"… More »

There was dust, rain, then mud. There was Eddie Vedder, sitting in with Kings Of Leon and calling Perry Farrell up onstage with Pearl Jam during a reportedly monstrous, festival headlining two-hour set. There were Brooklynites and Brits, Dave Matthews and Phoenix, The B-52s and Mos Def, John Paul Jones and Karen O. Basically there… More »

You may remember earlier this year when Brandon put together a little show at a little bookstore in SoHo for which Dirty Projectors performed the little feat of composing a six-song suite for Björk in a week, after recording their best record to date, and then proceeded to blow everyone's minds with it. More »

After Dirty Projectors announced last night's Letterman appearance, emails were sent trying to guess what they'd perform. Sure there is "Stillness Is The Move," one of the blog year's splashier singles and a huge curveball from a project that enjoys being relentlessly shifty. But something about sidelining Longstreth with that spangly but repetitive guitar… More »

The four-song 12" EP includes Bitte Orca's "Temecula Sunrise" along with the equally familiar "Cannibal Resource" and two new tracks, "Ascending Melody" and "Emblem Of The World." It's out 9/28 in the UK via Domino, which is where you can get more details. US details forthcoming. More »

A busyweekend of live music in NYC wound up with a fantastic, if somewhat mismatched, lineup at the Williamsburg Waterfront on Sunday. The show was the second installment of the relocated "Pool Parties," a series of free summer shows shifted from McCarren Pool to East River State Park. The move… More »

After spending some much needed time recuperating after having their lives flipped over, Dave Longstreth's troupe of mind benders have resumed the good work of spreading their Bitte opus to understandably packed houses. Last night's sell-out hit our photographer Andrew Youssef as "one of the top shows of the year," and… More »

Even if Ben Folds snubbed them, after serving up instrument-free Vampire Weekend and Grizzly Bear the Carleton Singing Knights from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota show us that, once again, they have their finger on what's really (really) popular in indie rock at any given moment. (Though, hey, why no "My Girls"? More »

Yesterday Dirty Projectors' van flipped when they were traveling from Michigan to Toronto. (Yes, that's a photo of said van.) According to the band, they'd stopped at a fruit stand and after moving back onto the highway were hit by a car that had jumped the meridian after it was cut-off in the left lane… More »

By Scott Lapatine & Amrit Singh Not that it's a competition, but at any summer festival you'll be expected to answer What Was The Best Set So Far several times a day. We have a tie for Friday, at least from what we saw, between two Brooklyn bands at their peak. The melismatic strai… More »

This post is a really big deal because we never ask questions like this. (We always ask questions like this.) But for real this time ... did Bitte Orca do it? Is this the one? It's almost December right? At SXSW, where Dirty Projectors debuted the Bitte material in a set that'… More »

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Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe" was one of the defining jams of summer 2012, but it was the sort of song that screamed "one-hit wonder" from the rooftops. Well, that's not going to be the case. Today, Jepsen comes back with a new single called "I Really Like You," and it is absolute top-shelf… More »

Mumford & Sons have announced the details of their third full-length, Wilder Mind, and it's bound to sound pretty different from the rest of the folk-rock group's output. As As they told Rolling Stone, the band went completely electric for the new album, ditching the folkier elements that catapulted them to fame. "We felt… More »

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